Popularity...

"Popularity is a busy talker"  
"... popularity is not true fame"

From Clare's "Essay on Popularity", spread across a dozen manuscripts in the Peterborough Archive.

Pride & Titles...

[Image: George Cruikshank]

"Prides pomps are shadows all"
"Titles honours toys"

both in A18 p268r (Unpublished)

False friendship...

Discovered this brilliant alliterative line in a poem from a Clare manuscript  I found in the archive in Peterborough yesterday afternoon (I'm still working on it):

"Tho flattery findeth friends"

Here is the context...

Tho flattery findeth friends
In every grade & state
& telling truth offends
The lowly & the great
Truth when the worst is bye shall rise
When follys vapour stinks & flyes

Pet MS A18 p268r

First love...

"...joy's first dreams will haunt the mind"

MP IV 11

Uncertain love...

... the tumult in a timid smile

from 'The nightmare'

MP I 332

Childhood...

The hour of childhood is a roseys hour
Smiling along in sunshine & in shower

EP II 523

Cunning...

"Cunning make make a man noted but wisdom makes him esteemed"

Pet MS A18 p247r